Chicago school board votes to remove uniformed police officers from schools
The Chicago Board of Education voted on Thursday to end its contract with Chicago police and remove uniformed officers from the city’s schools.
The vote came at the end of a nearly eight-hour school board meeting in which teachers, students and elected city officials spoke.
The battle on whether to keep the uniformed police officers in the 39 city schools where they continue to patrol, out of 634 schools, has been going on since police were assigned to protect the schools in 1991.
In Chicago, according to data released in 2020, 408 students were arrested in school, and 73% of alleged offenses were committed by black students. Enrollment data also showed black students made up 36% of students in the district.
The calls to get rid of SROs started after the death of George Floyd and the subsequent nationwide riots, at which time then-Mayor Lori Lightfoot cut the school district’s contract with the Chicago Police Department in half rather than get rid of it entirely.
The Chicago Teachers Union, (CTU) advocated for police officers to be removed from schools in 2020, amid the George Floyd protests. [Getting rid of school choice and police in schools is about politics, not what’s best for kids and families.
Thr 911 calls from the schools should be blocked. Let the school principals and superintendents deal with the ANARCHY ny themselves.
Its always called racism when any action is tsken against minority students.
The reason dummycrats want police removed from schools is they want to see some nut shoot up another school and go after ALL guns . And blacks are ok with this dumbshit because they always sue and always get millions .
